Week 1

I have been studying the first chapter in Multimodal Composition and listened to the NPR radio article. It seems that a lot of what we will be covering this semester might intertwine with my other classes as well, along with some side research that I am doing on propaganda and how that works in today's society. Learning how new media works, I think, will be a good thing for me to learn because by doing so I can learn how the rhetoric that is fabricated via the new technology works on the human brain. As propaganda is basically the manufacture of human consent, to keep the masses busy and off balance so to speak, the new technology that is coming along will aid in keeping people separated, keep them from unifying against the oppression of the institutions that govern our world. By knowing how that propaganda works and being able to manufacture my own form of message that can spread through the crowds like a wildfire, perhaps I, too, can help the world, even just a little bit, by showing that human experience, especially suffering, is universal, and that by helping each other we can overcome any obstacle with the will of the human heart.